<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>with the creation of the TM for the priority cities in Central African Republic, there are questions and discussion regarding the roads tagging.</div><div><br></div><div>We, the Eurosha CAR team, have published a suggested road typology on the project Wiki page (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic#Road_typology">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic#Road_typology</a>) but we and other mappers still often have doubts when mapping (residential/track/path/other...).</div>
<div><br></div><div>We will be happy for your opinions, suggestions and experience from similar environemts.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Eurosha CAR team</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
I would say we should tag roads with highway=road as a default if we cannot<br>
state about if it is a path or a track and if it is not an obvious<br>
residential road.<br>
Regarding unclassified/tertiary/secondary, IMHO it is quite difficult to<br>
tqg this on a TM squre cause we need to have a larger overview to decide.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>Severin<br>
<br> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> I finished off a single quarter-square of <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134a" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134a</a> short time ago; this was a rural area. I am new to tracing and tagging<br>
> in Africa.<br>
><br>
> I've tagged all the roadways I added as {{tag|highway|unclassified}} as I<br>
> wasn't sure which should be down-tagged to, for instance, track or path.<br>
> On the other side, I was not sure which should be up-tagged to, for<br>
> instance, {{tag|highway|tertiary}}. Further, I am not inferring surface<br>
> material; the {{tag|highway|secondary}} which passes through my quarter<br>
> square was tagged with a surface.<br>
><br>
> Is my approach OK going forward?<br>
><br>
> --ceyockey<br><br><br>
<br>
<br>
Same problem in Madagascar. But also using road, we will wait for<br>
years before a field mapper can check the road and change the<br>
classification. So, there is a tendency to use unclassified by default<br>
and to change it to tertiary if we have some other informations like<br>
the main access to "commune" main town.<br><br>
Eric<br>
<br><br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
this is the Eurosha volunteers from CAR, currently in refuge in Cameroun.<br>
So far we have been using this convention (for Bangui and a few cities<br>
taken by the rebels). We have chosen this classification based on the<br>
importance of the roads (not necessarily the size or surface).<br>
<br>
- Primary - The main axes connecting the biggest cities and a the most<br>
important roads in Bangui.<br>
- Secondary - The roads connecting big cities with villages and a bit<br>
less important roads in Bangui.<br>
- Tertiary - not really used except for a few roads in Bangui<br>
- Residential - used for all the roads where houses are around<br>
- Tracks - the small roads going outside the residential areas<br>
- Path - little roads just for pedestrians, not big enough for a car<br>
(however, the Centralafricans consider every road big enough for a car :))<br>
<br>
For an example, check the city of Bria (<a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134</a>),<br>
feel free to have a look at the whole city, it is not big.<br>
We are going to add the typology of roads on the wiki page for CAR (<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic</a>)<br>
but before that we will be happy for more suggestions on this.<br>
<br>
Sincerely<br>
Eurosha CAR team<br></blockquote></div>